From the first act of the book I have responded negatively to the character Abigail. This is mainly in part due to the fact she didn't own up straight away and by doing this, putting many other lives at risk. Because she was the leader of the group she is also portrayed as overbearing and to dominant for my liking. She also puts her needs in front of everyone else's to capture the eye of an already married man, driven only by sexual desire and a lust for power. "I look for John Proctor that took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart! I never knew what pretense Salem was, I never knew the lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men! And now you bid me tear the light out of my eyes? I will not, I cannot! You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet!"
The second character from the book which i respond to in a better light is John Proctor. He is an honest, upright, and blunt-spoken individual. It is clear that Proctor is a good man, but one with a secret, fatal flaw. His lust for Abigail Williams led to their affair (which occurs before the play begins), and created Abigail’s jealousy of his wife, Elizabeth, which sets the entire witch hysteria in motion, and eventually Proctor's demise. "A man may think God sleeps, but God sees everything, I know it now. I beg you, sir, I beg you—see her what she is. . . . She thinks to dance with me on my wife’s grave! And well she might, for I thought of her softly. God help me, I lusted, and there is a promise in such sweat. But it is a whore’s vengeance. . . ".
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